‘Sixty’ Recounts a 61st Year, Complete With Humor, Rue and Hemorrhoid

Ian Brown’s book, a diary spanning a year of his life, bristles with self-recrimination, unrealized ambitions, trenchant quotations and soulful passages. it's a great, fat rosebush of a book that’s beautiful and pungent and, at moments, deceptively prickly.
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